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<p>Restaurant Week diners appear to be enjoying themselves at the Boar's Head Inn Thursday night.</p>
http://www.readthehook.com/99179/restaurant-week-rolls#comments_BreakingNews_FoodSnap o' the DayPeopleboar's head innCharlottesville Restaurant WeekNewsFri, 15 Jul 2011 13:57:49 +0000hawes99179 at http://www.readthehook.comProtester removal: Boar's Head denies ordering trespassing arresthttp://www.readthehook.com/95109/protester-removal-boars-head-inn-claims-trespassing
<p>Protesters along the street in Charlottesville are not an unusual sight. Out on U.S. 250 west in front of the entrance of the upscale Boar's Head Inn, demonstrators are more unusual&#8211; and so was the response when Dominion Virginia Power held its shareholders meeting there May 12.</p>
<p>Chris Walters, 57, a carpenter and environmentalist, had gotten an email about the People’s Alliance for Clean Energy rally on the morning of Dominion's meeting, and he decided to demonstrate his disdain for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountaintop_removal_mining">mountaintop removal</a>, a type of strip mining that some consider an environmental nightmare because of the damage it does. The protesters hoped to sway shareholders going into the meeting to consider other types of renewable energy and to nix more nuclear power plants.</p>
<p>Instead, someone called the cops and insisted that the demonstrators were on private land and had to leave, according to Walters.</p>
<p>"When the police started asking people to move to the other side of the road," says Walters, "I started walking away."</p>
<p>He headed west and says he was standing between the white stripe of the road and a guardrail when an Albemarle police officer allegedly said, "You have to leave; it's private property," says Walters. "I said, no it isn't. He said yes it is." And when Walters refused to leave the side of the road, he was arrested for trespassing.</p>
<p>Rutherford Institute founder John Whitehead is incredulous that police would arrest a protester on the side of the road. "There are a preponderance of cases out there," he says. "As long as it's not dangerous or obstructing traffic, he can be there. The officer didn't cite safety. He said the Boar's Head Inn wanted him gone."</p>
<p>"We can arrest in the public right-of-way if it's obstructing traffic," agrees Albemarle police spokesman Sergeant Darrell Byers. "Sidewalks would be public, and the side of the road would be a public right-of-way. I believe some of the protesters were on private property."</p>
<p>Albemarle police were already on the scene, contracted by Dominion to handle security and protests, according to Byers. He also says the property owner would have had to ask for the ouster of the enviro-protesters, but he declines to identify who made the request. The land along Route 250 on either side of Ednam Drive, which leads to the Boar's Head complex, is owned by the UVA Foundation.</p>
<p>"As far as I know, we had nothing to do with that arrest," says Boar's Head Inn public information person Pat Burnette.</p>
<p>"Executives at the UVA Foundation looked into the matter and confirmed that the Inn had no role in the arrest," says UVA spokesperson Marian Anderfuren.</p>
<p>Jane Foster, 86, has been to dozens of demonstrations, and she thought it was bad enough the 40 or so protesters had to be on busy U.S. 250 rather than in front of the Inn.</p>
<p>"The police insisted we move across the street," she says. "You could see they'd never had to handle anything like this before."</p>
<p>Both Foster and Walters say the officers were very polite.</p>
<p>The Rutherford Institute will represent Walters when he goes to court July 19 for trespassing, and it's not the first time the civil rights organization has defended an alleged trespasser on First Amendment grounds.</p>
<p>In 2005, then House of Delegates candidate Rich Collins was arrested when he refused to leave Shoppers World, where he was handing out leaflets in front of Whole Foods. On appeal, <a href="http://www.readthehook.com/79961/news-late-breaking-video-did-collins-mean-trespass">Collins' trespassing conviction</a> was overturned, but he had less luck with <a href="http://www.readthehook.com/85428/news-collins-v-lebo-keep-your-talk-outta-my-parking-lot">changing Virginia law to protect free speech on private property</a> that acts as a public forum.</p>
<p>"Even if he was on private property," says Collins, "it was an important enough event to warn the public. I find it unfortunate Virginia law doesn't protect free speech on private property that's open to the public."</p>
<p>“Chris Walters has a right to engage in political expression, and his arrest is an egregious violation of the First Amendment," decries Whitehead. "The fact that Walters was arrested for exercising his free speech rights in Charlottesville, a city that prides itself on being the birthplace of Thomas Jefferson, who envisioned America as an empire of liberty, is a sad reflection on how we value freedom today.”</p>
<p><em>Updated June 28 with information from the University of Virginia Foundation.</em></p>
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<p><a href="http://www.readthehook.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/dish-thuys.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-20305 alignleft" title="dish-thuys" src="http://www.readthehook.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/dish-thuys.jpg" alt="dish-thuys" width="177" height="144" /></a>Sweet treats over at the Boar’s Head, home of the <a href="http://www.readthehook.com/foodfinder/restaurants/old-mill-room" target="_blank"><strong>Old Mill Room</strong></a>, could be getting even sweeter, as the resort announced recently that it has hired new pastry chef, <strong>Cornelius Thuys</strong>.<br />
</p><p class="whitespace">In addition to graduating from the <strong>St. Nicholas Pastry School</strong> in <strong>Amsterdam</strong>, <strong>Holland</strong>, Thuys has 25 years experience crafting bakery treats, beginning in <strong>Switzerland</strong> and the <strong>Netherlands</strong>, then in America as the Executive pastry chef at the <strong>Hotel Dupont in Wilmington</strong>, <strong>Delaware</strong>, and later at the <strong>The DuPont Country Clu</strong>b. In 1999, he became the head pastry maker at the <strong>Sagamore Resort</strong> on <strong>New York</strong>, and then moved to <strong>Arizona </strong>where he led the <strong>The Wigwam Resort and Golf Club's </strong>pastry efforts.<br />
</p><p class="whitespace">Thuys, the Boar’s Head reports, has a reputation for innovative, stylish, wedding cakes, chocolate creations, and seasonal desserts. Yum!</p>
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<div class="captionLeftPortrait"><img src="/images/issues/2007/0649/food-gallaudet.jpg" border="0" /><br /><b>Boar's Head Inn's Mark Gallaudet with his savory scallops<br /></b><small>PHOTO BY WILL WALKER</small></div>
<p><b>The secret to great cooking is...</b> quality ingredients. If you start with old, or low-grade ingredients, the quality of the dish will be sacrificed. Don't skimp.</p>
<p class="p1"><b>The secret to success in the restaurant business is...<span>&nbsp;</span></b> taking care of the people who take care of you. If you don't surround yourself with good people, you're going to fall short.</p>
<p class="p1"><b>The secret to making Boar's Head Inn's hand-seared scallops with warm frisée salad is...</b> drying the scallops with a paper towel before seasoning them.<span>&nbsp;</span></p>
<p class="p1"><b>Boar's Head Inn's hand-seared scallops with warm frisée salad<span>&nbsp;</span></b></p>
<p class="p1">12 large scallops</p>
<p class="p1">2 oz. olive oil</p>
<p class="p1">2 oz. soft butter</p>
<p class="p1">4 heads frisée, cut and washed</p>
<p class="p1">4 strips Virginia bacon, diced to 1/4" portions</p>
<p class="p1">2 Fuji apples-cored and diced to 1/4" portions</p>
<p class="p1">6 oz. goat cheese, crumbled</p>
<p class="p1">6 oz. simple sherry vinaigrette</p>
<p class="p1">Kosher salt</p>
<p class="p1">Black pepper</p>
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<p class="p1">-Season scallops with the salt and pepper. Place half the olive oil and soft butter in a hot skillet. Once melted, gently add half the scallops, let cook on first side for 90 seconds (do not move them). Then turn scallops over and let cook for 30-45 seconds. Put them on a dry paper towel. Repeat with the rest of the scallops. Keep in a warm place.</p>
<p class="p1">-In the same skillet, on low-medium heat, add the bacon. Cook for three to four minutes or until crispy. Add the apples and let cook for another two minutes. Add the simple sherry vinaigrette and the goat cheese. With a whip, incorporate the whole mixture. Turn the heat off and add the frisée until completely coated by the dressing mixture.</p>
<p class="p1">-On a rectangular plate, place three scallops in a row followed by a nice bundle of salad. Garnish with chives or apple chips. Serves four.<span> </span><span> </span></p>
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